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External Key Vault configuration

Background & Customer Context: Enterprise clients running or planning to run containerized IBM Sterling workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift (such as Bradesco) can be required by corporate governance to centralize credentials in external vaults (...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Upgrade communication protocol PODS to support ED25519 keys

Enable ED25519 SSH key support in Production PODS for SFTP-based communications. Currently, ED25519 authentication is supported in the CTE environment ( only in PODS but not in legacy Inflight yet ) but is not available in Production. A key Electr...
about 1 hour ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols Submitted

Serial getting stuck in PICK-VIRTUAL when two associates picks the task at same time.

When two associates attempt to work on the same pick request at almost the same time, the completed pick gets stuck in 'In Progress' status in the UI. While the OOB UI displays a pop-up warning that the request is already assigned to another user,...
1 day ago in Store Engagement / Performance Submitted

B2BAC support for critical Certificate Policies extensions containing Policy Qualifiers

The B2BAC application currently performs strict PKIX certificate validation and rejects certificates that contain a critical Certificate Policies extension with Policy Qualifiers, including User Notice qualifiers. This behaviour is consistent with...

Provide configuration for Edge Based Route in SEAS Helm Chart

Currently, SEAS creates OpenShift routes using passthrough termination. If a customer wants to use edge termination, they must manually modify the route template provided with the product. Our request is to provide a supported configuration option...

Enhance ITX MMap Execution Control with Native Timeout, Safe Termination and External Process Lifecycle Management

Using IBM ITX 11.0.2 (MMap / mpiMapRun) in a high-throughput AKS environment. Lifecycle: load -> run -> abort (if needed) -> wait -> unload Issues observed: abortRun() does not guarantee termination unload() cannot run during execu...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs Submitted

Add support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 together in same SSL configuration

Adding support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in the same SSL configuration allows clients to automatically negotiate the highest protocol version they support. This provides a smooth transition to TLS 1.3 while maintaining compatibility with existi...
13 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Enhanced mapping filters in Config Hub

Filters for config hub maps are extremely limited. Top tabs should have choices to list both deployed or undeployed maps, filters should enable limiting by resource creating/updating map, last update/create date range, possibly inbound/outbound, p...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation Under review

Create report that searches all the maps for the codelists they use and provide a downloadable report?

Hi Team — as we transition the Map Search Engine to Config Hub, Currently, we can search by individual codelists and get the list of all the maps using that code list. And the Map Test Tool, will give us all the codelists that a particular map use...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Future consideration

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Metrics and Traces Support

Sterling Control Center Monitor currently supports exporting events as OpenTelemetry (OTel) log signals to an OTel Collector. Request to extend the existing OTel integration to support metrics and traces signals in addition to logs. This would ena...
4 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other Submitted